1. Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow:

"Hope" is thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops -at all

And sweetest in the Gale -is heard
And sore must be storm-
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm

I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea
Yet -never -in Extremity,
It asked a crumb -of Me.

Emily Dickinson

Where does hope-reside?

What does the poet compare "hope" to in the second stanza

What are the two situations in which hope has kept the poet company?

Identify at least two metaphors in the poem.

Explain the mood of the poem.

Define the following giving suitable examples:

Simile

Metaphor

Irony

Metonymy

Alliteration

Add prefixes to the following words to form opposites

appropriate

regard

place

relevant

entity

Use the following words as directed to form sentences

paid (as adjective)

veil (as verb)

boil (as noun)

well (as adverb)

feel (as noun)

Fill in the blanks choosing suitable phrases (in their correct form) from the list given below:

give up, give in, give out, give off, give away

She kept nagging me for a car. Finally, I had to

His patience and he slapped the child hard.

The rotten fish is very foul smell.

Before his death he most of his wealth to charity.

Tired of being chased by the police all the time, he decided to

Correct the following sentences

She will not marry you unless you don't stop drinking.

I prefer travelling by train more than by air.

Only after sunset the birds fly back to their nests.

The Food Bill has been tabulated in the Parliament.

Although we drove at 120 kph but we could not reach the airport on time to catch the flight.

Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.

Her marriage him did not last very long.

Is she home?

With a view preventing car thefts, we have introduced a token system.

We could get neither a taxi nor an auto. the end we took a rickshaw.

Bullets were flying our heads.

The case has still not been disposed

She refused to talk me on this topic.

(viii) He has been charged theft.

Spicy food does not agree me.

You have to account the money you have spent.

Write short notes on any two of the following:

Rhythm

Allegory

Symbolism

Elevation of Style

Point out the literary and rhetorical devices used in the following passage

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not fully or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon this assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now. Nevertheless, the past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now. That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

The future beckons to us. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavour? To bring freedom and opportunity to the common man, to the peasants and workers of India; to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease; to build up a prosperous, democratic and progressive nation and to create social, economic and political institutions which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman.
(-Jawaharlal Nehru 1947)

Use prefixes/suffixes with the following words and use them as directed in sentences

intend (as noun)

courage (as verb)

able (as verb)

subject (as adjective)

beauty (superlative degree)

Use the following phrases to make meaningful sentences:

apart from

on the contrary

above board

part and parcel

on the fast track

Identify and explain the figures of speech in the following sentences:

Only someone with a heart of stone can be so cruel to a child.

The little stars looked like diamonds in the sky.

The flames lit up the whole sky.

Now night is near, now needful nature nods.

And death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.

Fill in the blanks with suitable articles.

I saw interesting fight between tiger and crocodile at the edge of lake. On land tiger seemed to be winning. But soon crocodile dragged tiger into water. The crocodile turned and in instant latter's head had
vanished into crocodile's jaws.